On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 08:30:02 AM Brian Mathis wrote: > > Wait - isn't that an alternative technology?!? > > No it's not, and you're making a stupid argument. Clearly there is a > difference between using a different client versus changing the entire > protocol stack across all systems it's being used for. Using a better > client mechanism involves maybe an hour or so worth of work, while > changing the entire protocol you're using requires changing every > service on every server in every company you might be interfacing > with. One of those is easy to do, the other one is likely impossible. As you make the point later, perl is a different technology than /usr/bin/ftp. Both can use the same protocol. > I find it strange and annoying that so many times the answers to > questions like the OP's so often and so clearly miss the mark, as if > no one here understands what's actually involved in implementing a new > protocol stack across an enterprise or between enterprises. We're all doing some different, you know? Some of us have to deal with arcane "requirements" written by some midlevel bureaucrat. I prefer using sftp, scp, or post/https for secure file transfers. More than once I've been forced to use FTP for "security reasons", even after I try to explain otherwise. > >> The questionable thing is not using entrenched protocols, but using > >> old methods like redirecting ftp commands via STDIN into a client to > >> control it. > > > /bin/sh is an "old method". TCP is pretty ancient, as well. For that > > matter, UNIX is REALLY ancient. Yet somehow, they are not only still > > useful, but highly relevant. Wheels are also old technology! > > See above, re: stupid argument. If your objection is to the use of > the word "old" as opposed to something like "error prone", please > perform 's/old/error prone/g' in your head and save us the pixels. > P.S. Something becomes "old" when it's been replaced by a newer, > better way of doing things, not simply because of age. I see this nowhere in the standard definition for "old". http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/old > Redirecting commands into an ftp client (and, btw, I don't know if the > OP is doing this, but it's still amazingly common) is a provably bad > "old" method of doing things. You cannot deal with error conditions > or anything else that might come up. Using a scripting > language/library allows you to deal with these obvious problems. You might consider becoming familiar with expect, perhaps? # yum install expect; > > I've been around the block long enough to know that those who are most > > certain they have the right answer right away are usually those least > > likely to have it. Science backs this conclusion up, it's called the > > Dunning-Kruger effect. Strange: no comment here? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110803/6ca1f162/attachment-0004.html>